Budget Control Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Budget Control
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Budget Control skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 352 394
Rank change year-on-year -32 +42 +102
Contract jobs citing Budget Control 15 8 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.084% 0.050% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.097% 0.059% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 10
10th Percentile £309 £453 £243
25th Percentile £337 £467 £274
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £490 £463
Median % change year-on-year -26.94% +5.95% -11.90%
75th Percentile £467 £512 £600
90th Percentile £600 £525 £689
UK median daily rate £447 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -9.70% -1.00% -1.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile - - £37.20
25th Percentile £21.75 - £61.50
Median hourly rate £23.50 £23.48 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.09% -64.42% +103.08%
75th Percentile £32.63 - -
90th Percentile £37.05 - -
UK median hourly rate £23.50 £23.48 £66.00
% change year-on-year +0.09% -64.42% +130.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Budget Control falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,488 13,615 17,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.73% 85.92% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,453 7,914 11,623
10th Percentile £215 £241 £250
25th Percentile £373 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,748 854 1,266
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £19.59 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% -23.53% +30.77%
75th Percentile £44.95 £64.93 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.33 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Budget Control
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Budget Control relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Budget Control job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Budget Control
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Budget Control.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Budget Control

Budget Control
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budget Control in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Budget Control in the UK excluding London

Budget Control
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Budget Control.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Budget Control

Budget Control
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Budget Control in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Budget Control in the UK excluding London

Budget Control
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Budget Control within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands -28 6 £358 -23.34% 4
North West -13 4 £447 -8.78% 2
North of England -39 4 £447 -12.70% 3
East Midlands -16 3 £358 -23.34% 3
West Midlands - 3 £358 - 1
Scotland - 3 £358 -
East of England - 1 £600 - 8
South West - 1 - - 5
Budget Control
UK

Budget Control
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) JBoss
2 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
2 1 (6.67%) WebLogic
2 1 (6.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (6.67%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) OCI
1 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) DB2
1 1 (6.67%) GIS
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Local Government
5 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Scrum Master
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (6.67%) Coordinator
3 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Head of Technology
3 1 (6.67%) ICT Manager
3 1 (6.67%) ICT Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Information Assurance Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) PMO Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Project Assurance Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Project Coordinator
3 1 (6.67%) Project Support Coordinator
3 1 (6.67%) Workday Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Workday Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) RAML
1 1 (6.67%) REST
1 1 (6.67%) SOAP
1 1 (6.67%) Web Services
1 1 (6.67%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) NHS
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) Scrum
3 7 (46.67%) Servant Leadership
4 6 (40.00%) Backlog Management
4 6 (40.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 6 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (40.00%) SDLC
5 5 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
6 4 (26.67%) Budget Management
6 4 (26.67%) ERP
6 4 (26.67%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (26.67%) Sprint Retrospective
6 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (20.00%) PRINCE2
7 3 (20.00%) Situational Awareness
8 2 (13.33%) Agile Coaching
8 2 (13.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
8 2 (13.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.67%) PMP
2 1 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Workday